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Monday, March 12: Anderson Cooper confronts the owner of a website that provides a forum for people to publish whether someone has an STD without proof or consent. This has been discussed here a few times. This is his daytime talk show. Check your local listings or check back for link, if interested.

Monday, March 12: Anderson Cooper confronts the owner of a website that provides a forum for people to publish whether someone has an STD without proof or consent. This has been discussed here a few times. This is his daytime talk show. Check your local listings or check back for link, if interested.

i've recently experieced similar. i took down my facebook. that action resulted in me being declared dead. an alumni from my high shools maintains a facebook page to remember all our classmates that passed away. she also lists "cause" of death. i don't even know this woman, she was at least ten years ahead of me.

here are the ones i took issue with, names other than mine altered

zach; class of '94, died '11 from AIDS (and i still aint dead)mike; class of '91, , died '90, suicide by poison bob; class of '86, died '89, suicide by cop, jim; class of '81, died '84, AIDS

the whole page felt macbre and salacious. at least they took mine down when the error was pointed out. however, teh aids cat is out of the bag

Also, what on earth is "suicide by cop"? he was a policeman who killed himself?

Suicide by cop is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately acts in a threatening way, with the goal of provoking a lethal response from a law enforcement officer or other armed individual, such as being shot to death, pulling a gun on teh po po will almost certainly end in the armed individuals death.......

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"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

I watched the show and Anderson has it right, when he calls the guy "A waste of breath". The gist of the issue is the guy runs a website where anyone can post claims of people having STDs, whether it is true or not and the damage done to innocent folks. The guy claims he doesn't control what people post, so he's safe, however, he does offer a program for $1K to help clean up the reputations that are sullied as a result of his website.

I have no words to describe this man, you have to watch it to believe he exists. Surely antifreeze is the only thing that flows through his veins.

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

On a new website, webmaster Cyrus aggregates information about whether random people have sexually transmitted diseases using info from anonymous tips, and if those written about want the information removed, they are required to hand over their medical records.

Per the site's regulations, even though STD-related information -- including lies -- can be posted about people's medical conditions with no proof. Challenging an allegation requires a clean medical record to be personally sent to Cyrus himself.

Anderson questions if this fair, arguing that people have very little reason to trust a man who created this site in the first place. As someone who's been mentioned on the site, Shannon agrees.

"People can easily say someone has an STD without proof, but then you have to have proof to get off the site?" Shannon asks Cyrus. "That means you're guilty and have to prove yourself innocent."

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

Suicide by cop is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately acts in a threatening way, with the goal of provoking a lethal response from a law enforcement officer or other armed individual, such as being shot to death, pulling a gun on teh po po will almost certainly end in the armed individuals death.......

Wow thanks. I never heard of it! How awful for the cop!

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Tell me, isn't this clever of Anderson Cooper to think of this interview. It deepens the discussion we've been having, aghast at all the topics of the Republican presidential primary, and misc. state legislatures.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP